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Oodle Attack On Craigslist Falls Flat
Oodle, a classified ads site, recently financed a report that shows the extent of crime associated with Craigslist: "Crime and Craigslist: A sad tale of murders and more."Here is an extract:The...
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This Is What The Internet Looks Like...
PEER 1, an IT hosting provider, has produced a visual interpretation of the Internet. It identifies 19,869 autonomous system nodes with 44,344 connections.The sizing and layout of the autonomous...
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Out&About: Startup/Apps Mania In The Coffee Shops And Bars
These it's difficult to go anywhere without hearing about startups and their apps. That's natural in my job but when you start hearing "normal" people talking about apps all of a sudden then that's an...
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Is Curation Becoming A Proxy For 'Social Media?'
Curation is a hot topic and it's a topic that is being enthusiastically adopted by many in social media -- so much so that curation and social media seem to be beginning to be used interchangeably.Take...
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Plaxo Moves Out Of Social Networking
Plaxo is phasing out its social network features as it prepares for a major relaunch on March 16 (details later) and moves back to its roots: managing users address books.
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Memolane: Curating Your Life In Social Media...
Memolane launched today, an interesting service that creates a timeline of all your posts, tweets, Facebook, photo and video uploads.
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Deja View: The Post-PC Era ...
Linley Gwennap is one of the most respected analysts in the microprocessor industry who has closely followed the industry for more than 15 years. By Linley Gwennap (via Intel Free Press) Pundits are...
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New Media Business Models: How To Make $2K On $5m In Revenues
Business Insider, the popular news site founded by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget, this week revealed its 2010 finances.
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Muckraking: A Disappearing Form Of Journalism?
The term muckraker has some negative connotations today but it used to be a noble term applied to a form of journalism that railed against injustice, corruption and the excesses of the high and mighty.
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Silicon Valley Veteran VC Bill Davidow Says "No Bubble"
I just finished an interview with Bill Davidow on the subject of his new book "Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet." I'll post the interview later. I took the opportunity of asking Mr...
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VCs Agree: "No Bubble" ... But Is Twitter A Sign?
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble," chanted the witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth, cooking up trouble. Similarly, are the VCs of Silicon Valley cooking up trouble by...
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You Might Already Be A Curator...
Curation is a hot topic in regard to the Internet but curation is nothing new -- most of us do it without even thinking about it.Take a look around your home and you will likely see many curations:
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Learning How To Link Bait: Arianna and NYTimes Chief Bill Keller Sling Mud...
A tempest in a teapot is probably a too generous way to describe the online spat between Arianna Huffington and Bill Keller, Editor-in-Chief of the New York Times.
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MobyNow: Real-Time Tracking Of Tweets, Photos And More At SWSXi
I'm not at South By South West interactive this year but the Austin, Texas based event is hosting a lot of the digerati from around the world but especially from SF/Silicon Valley.Keeping track of...
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Bill Davidow On The Dangers Of An Over-Connected Society
I recently interviewed Bill Davidow, the veteran Silicon Valley VC and co-founder of Mohr Davidow Ventures, about his recently published book: OVERCONNECTED: The Promise and Threat of the Internet.The...
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Plaxo Reboots - Moves Back To Its Roots, Leaves Social Networking
Plaxo is announcing a major relaunch today that moves its focus back to management of user address books across all of their devices and is pulling out of social networking.The company announced new...
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SNCR: Research Shows Thought Leadership Crucial For Business Professionals...
Te latest research from the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) shows that business professionals are increasingly drawn to thought leadership in online communities.The research was...
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Craigslist Planning Big Expansion? Moving To Huge Downtown Space
There was an interesting tidbit in Therese Poletti's Tech Tales on MarketWatch this week:
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Techcrunch Attack On SF City Government - Should SF's Tech Stars Avoid Local...
Mike Arrington at Techcrunch, has attacked San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos for insisting that tech superstar companies such as Twitter pay the city's 1.5% payroll tax.Mr Arrington resorted to name...
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Zediva: Rent A DVD Player + Movie Online for $2
Zediva launched today, a service that allows you to rent and watch newly released DVD movies online at the low price of $2 each.This is about half-the price of other services and it includes movies...
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